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Deutsche Welle (8 April 2022)

By Farah Bahgat

Campaigns for the French presidential election officially come to an end late Friday.

The vote, starting Sunday, is set to determine who leads the European Union's second-largest economy and the bloc's only permanent UN Security Council member. 

Here's what you need to know:

How does the voting work?

Every five years, French voters directly elect a president through the same voting system that has been in place for generations: paper ballots cast in person and counted by hand.

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